Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-16

The February (midwintex holfSsTl
11nber Of tie CestzgK ID oua Of urfnt
IN the pablishers' hands.
Mrs. Cassas ssya shas her beck b not
half done. and that is may net BE rssdJ
fox sons months yek. BetuithssandinG
AL f1m0rs - 10 10 pablicMeion.
Mrs Henry Wood, ths aafhor Of
Esss Lyn1e.S died rsoeusiy IN Eng
land Soc was s. years old. ana hsd
made fortune In she Iaat % years By
Der pen. Besides writing bowels ahs
edited the Ayg0sy Haqazsse.
Matthew Aruold's nsnozraph on Gen.
9rAnt il Xsrrgv's Kaqzrias viii be
orosEht cut BY Cspples. Upham Il Co.
70 book form- Tue same boaBs has IN
press . nsw edition Of Tureeuiefs
Poems 10 Pross, Translated by Mrs-
T. 8. Perry.
The shams and foibIes Of New York
society are about 10 be again shown TO
the World By Mr.. Edgar Fageeft IN .
novel. the title Of which 10 nos yet de-
eided upon, although the story ID nearly
completed. Il will be Published In She
Brookiya Hagzziss.
Toe new and cheap edition Of the
" Memoirs Of Marie Antoineste," By
Mme. Campau. about TO be bFoaQht out
BY ScribneF 4 Wexford, in conjunction
With the L0ndoo Publishers. IL 10 Be So
perior 90 the English edition IN that IL
will have q namber Of additional per-
traits.
Edna Lyall. whose real name the
PEblishsrs' Weekly Gays 10 Ana Ellen
Bayly, resides 90 Eastbourne, England.
She has nov 10 press 9 new novel, the
title Of which The Knight Errant,"
the scens being laid partly IN Itaiy end
partly IN England. The story d Of the
present day.
J.B. Lippincott & Co. are Publishing.
in neat volumes with brown and red
notified covers, a nambsT Of entertain
ing English novels BY popular writer's.
sot of the very highest, but Of quite
respectable merit. That Other Per
son." BY Mrs. Alfred Hunt, 10 one OF
these recent PUBLICATIONS.
Philip Boarke N arston, the poet and
story writer. has jQst died in London a.
the age OF 81. He was the son Of DR..
Westland Msrston, the dramstist and
critic. Although blind frsm his third
year, Mr.. Marston wrote all his manu-
script With his own hand and wss an
industrious Wogker. Dinah Maria
CFaik. Who vas bis Rodmother, ad-
dressed 10 bin, when be vas baby,
one Of her best known poems, Phillip,
Nv King" Mr.. Marston was a graceful
writer, bat bis verse was nearly all
tinRed with not unnatural naslanchely.
Some of the stuff that gets itself cir
culated nowadays as English Is certain
ly fearfslly and wonderfully made. A
correspondent calls our attention TO 9
charming example Of mixed metaphor
from a recent Issue of the North Amer.
ieaR Revistg, which speaks Of "A scheme
50 Grade and III diRested that the wiser
heads Of your party feel Il necessary TO
give il the coup de RFsce while il vas
yet in its swaddling Clothes" An "ilI-
diRested" scheme in''swaddling Clothes
receiving the coup de eraos" would be
3 sight worth vitnessinel-TAs Literary
World.
The announcement this week that
Mr.. Jay Goald is writing a book has
been denied. Mr.. Gould 10 not anxious
TO write book. Early IN life he is said
to have prayed, 40. that mine enemy
would write q book" Several volumes
have since appeared about him in the
newspapers. Bat his nephew, Mr.. Nor
ihup, Is said TO have written bsok on
Mr.. Gould's roads, which is edited by
O. X. Clifford. EV ~ page will have
an illustration in three oolors, and the
editor il nov hunting for chameleon
Ia the hope Of getting enough coIorine
matter for frontispieee picture OF
Jay.
Mr.. James Rsdpath, the active editor
Of the North American Review, has been
confined TO his bed for the last month
AZ the home of some intimate friends
residing 10 the upper part of New York
His illness, which is declared by the
three Bellevue physicians In attendance
to be entirely due to overwsrk, necse
states a journey southva d as soon as
bis health will permit. Daring his alb
senee from the office, since Mr.. Allen
IhOrndyke Roe is alternating in Flor
ida, the editorial part Of the Revieto viii
be conducted by Mr.. Redpath's private
secretary, who has already prepared the
March number for the press.
The publishers Of McMaster's His
tory Of the People OF the United
States" receive numerous inquiries as
10 che probable time Of the publication
! OF the third volume of that work. In a
AIS~ht ANNNth W AaACahtNs AbUASNOu q OO.t
Mr.. McMasteT writes ss follows: "As
to when volume three will be finished,
can only say hope within the year.
This volume ought to be the best Of the
three, aud TO make il so I must 90
slowly. The papers to be examined at
washington are immense in number, so
that | cannot tell bow long it will take
to 90 over them. No pains, however,
shall be spared by me 70 have the man
ussript in your hands ct the very earliest
moment"
Thackeray 10 10 literature what salt is
TO water; he IL all vholesomeness, san
ity and vigoF. Let the great army Of
the morbid, the effeminate, the self
righteous, let the butterfly "realists" Of
today read him, and be either killed or
cured. Bat when 10 comes to selecting
any particular volume of bis one IL like
the ass between two bundles Of hay, and
would better cut the knot by appropri-
atinR both. Some Of bis best is 10 ev-
srything OF bis no one story contain q
u all. Toe short pieces are apt to be
TIE richer IN proportion 10 their length.
SELECTION 81 these Was published In
Boston, sSme twenty years ago, under
! h. q H..